Regeneration through violence
the mythology of the American frontier, 1600-1860
About this book
"In Regeneration through Violence, the first of his trilogy on the mythology of the American West, Richard Slotkin shows how the attitudes and traditions that shape American culture evolved from the social and psychological anxieties of European settlers struggling in a strange new world to claim the land and displace the Native Americans. Using the popular literature of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries - including captivity narratives, the Daniel Boone tales, and the writings of Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Melville - Slotkin traces the full development of this myth."--Jacket.
Subjects
- américains
- american literature
- american literature, history and criticism
- american national characteristics
- frontier and pioneer life in literature
- histoire et critique
- history and criticism
- littérature américaine
- myth in literature
- mythologie dans la littérature
- mythology in literature
- mythos
- national characteristics, american
- national characteristics, american, in literature
- regeneration in literature
- violence in literature
- weststaaten